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Descartes said the brain was a hydraulic pump, propelling the spirits of the nervous system through the body. Freud compared the brain to a steam engine. Karl Pribram likened it to a holographic storage device. Our theory of mind is whatever the contemporary technology is

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@himbodhisattva

· Apr 23

something i believe which i know is not universal but i can't imagine not believing: we are software. what i am experiencing, what "i" refers to... is so clearly software running on the brain i'm a language model bolted onto a reinforcement learning meat robot and that's cool

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Naval

@naval

Apr 23

It’s a universal explainer with an unknown underlying mechanism. It can simulate any activity that a quantum computer can. In that sense “quantum computer” is much closer than previous analogies.

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Didn’t the brain itself come up with the concept of “quantum computer”? Can the brain—the universal explainer—really explain and define itself?

12:34 AM · Apr 24, 2022Twitter for iPhone

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This is the crossroads that truly separates materialism from Advaita (and idealism to an extent). The appearance (and supposed function) of the brain to an observer after the waveform collapse only exists and has meaning to that observer. But who does that appearance appear to?